Too many blacks, youths supporting ULP – Leacock

St Clair ‘Major’ Leacock is bothered by the fact that so many youths and blacks are throwing their support behind the Unity Labour Party (ULP) and its leader Dr Ralph Gonsalves.

Leacock, who is the New Democratic Party’s (NDP) candidate in the Central Kingstown constituency in the December 9 general elections, shared what was on his mind last Sunday, as he addressed a public meeting{{more}} of the NDP at Walvaroo in East Kingstown Sunday night.

“There are still some things that bother your Major going in to this general election and one of those things is that there are still too many people, in particular too many young people who are following the ULP going into this general elections, and it bothers me.

“And there are also too many black people who are following the ULP going into this election,” Leacock told the large crowd gathered at the meeting.

He then called on the electorate to move away from Gonsalves.

“I make another appeal to all of our people to get off of Ralph Gonsalves’ estate once and for all!”

This passionate declaration by Leacock, who is also the vice-president of the NDP, came only a few days after the NDP launched their 2015 general elections manifesto online and just two days before the NDP signed the Code of Conduct for general elections in St Vincent and the Grenadines.

The NDP’s manifesto, in a section titled, “Towards a Meritocracy”, says persons should not be rewarded by virtue of political affiliation, religious grouping, race or social class.

The Code of Conduct has as one of its clauses that “Candidates will not use race, religion, country of origin, or class to mobilize support or to vilify any individual, family or section of the society.